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Education, culture, and identity in twentieth-century China

From the founding of China's first modern school system in the late Qing dynasty through the republican era to the latest educational developments in the People's Republic of China, this book seeks to understand how developments in education contributed to, and were in turn influenced by, cultural patterns and the ongoing search for identity by individuals, collectivities, and states. Its sixteen contributors explore three themes that have enlivened China studies in recent years: sino-foreign interactions, state-society relations, and gender representation and identification
Print Book, English, ©2001
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ©2001
History
vi, 498 pages ; 24 cm
9780472111510, 0472111515
46419753
Introduction / Glen Peterson, Ruth Hayhoe
Part 1. Sino-foreign interactions in education / Douglas R. Reynolds
Searching for individuality / Nina Y. Borevskaya
Japan's involvement with higher education in Manuchuria / Yutaka Otsuka
Christian mission schools and Japan's Tō-A Dōbun Shoin / Douglas R. Reynolds
Mission schools and modernity / Ryan Dunch
British Protestant educational activities and the nationalization of Chinese education in the 1920s / Dan Cui
Nationalization and internationalization / Gang Ding
Part 2. State and society in Chinese education / Stig Thøgersen
The status of Confucianism in modern Chinese education, 1901-49 / Zheng Yuan
Peasant education and the reconstruction of village society / Glen Peterson
Learning in Lijiazhuang / Stig Thøgersen
University autonomy in twentieth-century China / Ningsha Zhong and Ruth Hayhoe
The resurgence of private education in post-Mao China / David K.K. Chan and Ka-Ho Mok
Part 3. Gender representation and identification / Heidi Ross
Active citizen or efficient housewife? / Paul Bailey
Forging a new role for women / Sarah Coles McElroy
Historical memory, community service, hope / Heidi Ross
Ethnic minority girls on Chinese school benches / Mette Halskov Hansen
The women's studies movement in China in the 1980s and 1990s / Ping-Chun Hsiung